Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
Beitbridge farm saga deepens January 17, 2016 in Local, News A prominent Beitbridge farmer has accused a soldier of threatening to shoot his employees if they fail to leave a citrus farm that has been under siege since last year. XOLISANI NCUBE Ian Ferguson, who owns Benfar Farm, made the revelations in a letter to the Lands …
Land reform: The final frontier SUNDAY MAIL REPORTER 1 DAY AGO Redistribution of land that used to be owned by former commercial white farmers is almost complete with only 900 000 hectares left after the successful allocation of about 14,5 million hectares to locals during the last 15 years under the Fast Track Land Reform …
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Address land redistribution flaws urgently January 8, 2016 Opinion & Analysis Government has since independence in 1980 made get strides in trying to correct the skewed land ownership which favoured minority whites. Productive land which used to be a preserve of the whites has now been allocated to blacks in different parts of the …
Zimbabwe Farmers Crybabies Staff Reporter 10 Dec 2015 Agriculture minister Joseph Made FARMERS are mourning over the levies that government intends to charge on the land they occupied following the country’s fast track land reforms.Chief among the farmers’ concerns is that they will not be able to afford the levies, which have already been roundly condemned …
Armed police help Grace aide invade farm December 2, 2015 OVER 20 armed police officers reportedly escorted First Lady Grace Mugabe’s aide, Deputy Police Commissioner Olga Bungu, to evict prominent dairy farmer and liberation war sponsor, Gillian Munn from her Mashonganyika Farm in Goromonzi last week. BY RICHARD CHIDZA The family claims to have been …
’11 besieged white farmers must stay’ TENDAI KAMHUNGIRA, DEPUTY CHIEF WRITER • 29 NOVEMBER 2015 11:22AM • 2 COMMENTS SHARE THIS ARTICLE: HARARE – Chief Chiweshe and Mashonaland Central Province war veterans have thrown their weight behind 11 commercial white farmers facing eviction from their properties. Centenary white farmer Phillip Rankin, owner of Kingston Deverill Farm …
EDITORIAL/Land Tax Welcome 19 Nov 2015 LAST week, government gazetted rents and development levies payable by farmers on resettled land expropriated from former white owners. The move will affect about 300 000 beneficiaries and was made in terms of the Finance Act.The farmers who will be affected are those on A1 farms, who will pay …
Editorial Comment: Farm levies way to go November 17, 2015 Opinion & Analysis Rents and development levies for resettled farmers recently gazetted by the government under the Finance Act will spur development on farms and ensure that vast tracts of land acquired under the land reform programme are fully utilised. The Finance Act, assented to by President …
Govt gazettes rent, farm levies November 16, 2015 Headlines, Top Stories President Mugabe Elita Chikwati Agriculture ReporterGovernment has gazetted rents and development levies for resettled farmers in accordance with the Finance Act recently assented to by President Mugabe. The Finance Act, published last Friday, states that resettled farmers with permits and 99-year leases in all natural regions …
PSC redeploys 6 lands officers amid corruption claims November 10, 2015 Local News Mr Motsi Lloyd Gumbo Senior ReporterThe Public Service Commission has redeployed six provincial lands officers in a move seen as a response to allegations of corruption in land allocations raised by the Ministry of Lands and Rural Resettlement in the provinces. The ministry …
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